Loaiza, P;
Barabash, AS;
Basharina-Freshville, A;
Birdsall, E;
Blondel, S;
Blot, S;
Bongrand, M;
... Zukauskas, A; + view all
(2017)
The BiPo-3 detector.
Applied Radiation and Isotopes
, 123
pp. 54-59.
10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.01.021.
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Abstract
The BiPo-3 detector is a low radioactive detector dedicated to measuring ultra-low natural contaminations of 208Tl and 214Bi in thin materials, initially developed to measure the radiopurity of the double β decay source foils of the SuperNEMO experiment at the μBq/kg level. The BiPo-3 technique consists in installing the foil of interest between two thin ultra-radiopure scintillators coupled to low radioactive photomultipliers. The design and performances of the detector are presented. In this paper, the final results of the 208Tl and 214Bi activity measurements of the first enriched 82Se foils are reported for the first time, showing the capability of the detector to reach sensitivities in the range of some μBq/kg.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The BiPo-3 detector |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.01.021 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.01.021 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear, Nuclear Science & Technology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging, Chemistry, Low-radioactivity measurements, Double beta-decay detectors, GEANT4 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1545674 |
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